"In Your Eyes" - Peter Gabriel .

Love I get so lost, sometimes
Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart
When I want to run away
I drive off in my car
But whichever way I go
I come back to the place you are
All my instincts, they return
And the grand facade, so soon will burn
Without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside
In your eyes
The light the heat
In your eyes
I am complete
In your eyes
I see the doorway to a thousand churches
In your eyes
The resolution of all the fruitless searches
In your eyes
I see the light and the heat
In your eyes
Oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light
The heat I see in your eyes

Love, I don't like to see so much pain
So much wasted and this moment keeps slipping away
I get so tired of working so hard for our survival
I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive
And all my instincts, they return
And the grand facade, so soon will burn
Without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside
In your eyes
The light the heat
In your eyes
I am complete
In your eyes
I see the doorway to a thousand churches
In your eyes
The resolution of all the fruitless searches
In your eyes
I see the light and the heat
In your eyes
Oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light,
The heat I see in your eyes
In your eyes in your eyes
In your eyes in your eyes
In your eyes in your eyes

Jeez, how many songs has Rosanna had written about her?

Jealous

In Your Eyes is a perfect pop song.

Rosanna got around.

It's the perfect love song. The lyrics almost make me teary-eyed.

Peter Gabriel at his absolute best (forgive the blurry video), this old Disney Channel concert vid really has the definitive live versions. "In Your Eyes" is near end at 1:29:45.

Rosanna must be really good at cocksucking or something because she was never much to look at. She got praise for her accurate portrayal of Nicole Baker, Gary Gilmore's bubblebrained girlfriend. I suspect the role wasn't a big stretch for her; Nicole Baker was the type who would meet a guy at a truckstop and in less than an hour she'd be in his vehicle getting her pussy plowed. She WAS Nicole Baker.

I have seen him many times in concert and he gets better as he ages. Man knows how to deliver a show.

R9 - Rosanna was pretty in her 20s and 30s and had/has a fabulous body. plus, she seemed eager to please.

[quote]I never found Arquette attractive. She's always seemed weird and trashy to me
Well, she IS an Arquette. They are all kind of weird. She did have a nice rack though.
And Peter Gabriel has always been hot, even nowadays as a silver fox.

That's two songs written about her that I can recall. Toto "Rosanna" and Peter Gabriel "in your eyes".
Great actress just one of the many that wasn't able to continue on in the field.

Well, Peter Gabriel must have had something, because Sinead tried to off herself, when he broke up with her...it IS Sinead, so, who knows.
For the record, he broke up with Rosanna AT DISNEYLAND/WORLD (forget which) on HER BIRTHDAY. They remain friends, allegedly..

Peter Gabriel has never been very mentally stable. That's where all his artistry comes from.

Perhaps he has the John Hann package

Well, you can definitely see some VPLage at the 4:05 mark in the video for "Steam"...

Paula Cole got her start with him. He sang back up vocals on her song Hush, Hush, Hush about a young man dying og AIDs. Chokes me up every time I hear it.

Best performed live when he would open the song a cappella -- "Forgetting all that's done and said, I want to stand and stare again, 'til there's nothing left, Ohhhh, it remains there in your eyes..."

One of the best pop love songs ever written, IMHO. But then, I think Peter Gabriel is one of the finest pop songwriters alive.

I've never cared for his work.

I tried to figure out the African chanting at the end of the song. I like that part; there's a live version where they have someone named "Papa Winba" sing in his native tongue and it's haunting.

I can't hold a candle to "Girl You Know It's True", by Milli Vanilli.

Paula Cole backs Peter on Don't Give Up too. She's stellar with him.
The whole So album is incredible.

Isn't that Kate Bush on "Don't Give Up"?

I used to send family members to his WOMAD concerts as Christmas gifts. I gave up on concerts after David Bowie's Glass Spider tour, but my family loved going to his festivals.
He gave an interview - very Warren Zevon - in which he noted that his shittiest ditties were the most well received.

R34, yes there is a Paula Cole version.
[quote]The song was included in Peter Gabriel's Secret World Live tour featuring singer Paula Cole. The DVD release of a performance in Italy in 1993 (released in 1994) included the duet.

On the recorded version on So, Kate sings on Don't Give Up. While touring in the early 90s, Peter had Paula back him on DGU and other songs.

I read that the Don't Give Up video was so dirty they had to reshoot for America's MTV. Apparently Kate Bush tangled herself all over Peter Gabriel for the entire length of the British video.

The resolution
Of all the fruitless searches
1987, bitches, and Peter was hot as fuck because TALENT.

Those lyrics from "All my instincts..." all the way to "I want to touch the light the heat I see in your eyes" strike such a chord.

I've never heard that, r38 - I'd like to see that..Damn, he was hot, in those days.

R38 - I believe that!

R31, the lyrics you're referring to were written by Youssou N'Dour and they're in Wolof. The singer is basically singing a variation of the chorus in Wolof.
I've always thought the inclusion of the African drums and the chorus really drove the unique dynamics of the song.

Ugh. I wish I did not read here it was written for Rosanna Arquette. Won't be able to enjoy hearing it again.

He refused to let them use the song in Say Anything but Cameron Crowe was relentless.
Ka-Ching!!!!

[quote]1987, bitches, and Peter was hot as fuck because TALENT.
Huh?

I'm a big fan, and I've always been particularly fond of Peter Gabriel 3, the "melting face" record. The whole album has a real ominous, spooky feel to it. Especially love the song No Self Control.
"I don't know how to stop, no I don't know how to stop."

"Ugh. I wish I did not read here it was written for Rosanna Arquette. Won't be able to enjoy hearing it again."
I will still be able to enjoy the beauty of the song, but that's certainly a waste of an inspiration.

Twentysomething

Wow, I just compared the YouTube vid I linked at R8 and my roomie's Secret World DVD of the same concert. The stereo mix on the online version is super thin compared to the gen-u-ine article, which is awesomely fat. Let's get the DVD, shall we?

Some Gabriel facts: PG was fat as a kid, his first wife's father was the Queen's secretary, she was very busty like Rosanna A, PG is a tit man or was, not sure what his most current wife looks like, except like all the other aging rockers, he married a much younger woman and she immediately had a baby.
Peter, as well as all the other original Genesis members, except for Phil Collins, who wasn't the original drummer, came from upper middle class backgrounds, which in the UK means wealthy.
PG went to Charterhouse, a public (private) school in England.